The eighth annual Africa Down Under Conference is on for three days in Perth. Around 1,400 delegates will join ministers from across Africa, where Australian mining companies are involved in nearly half of all mine operations.

People gather around Muna Hotel, in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, after an attack by Islamist militants which left at least 29 people dead on August 24, 2010. Six parliamentary MPs were among those killed at the hotel.